Carbid-cartridge.



No. 637,68l. Patented Nov. 2|, 1899.

T. G. TURNER.

GA-RBID CARTRIDGE.

(Application filed Apr. 22, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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THOMAS G. TURNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CARBiD-CARTRIDGE..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters'Patent No. 637,681, dated November 21, 1899.

Application filed April 22, 1899. Serial No. 714,129. (No model.) I

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS G. TURNER, of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Shipping and Handling Calcium Carbid; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in means for shipping and handling calcium carbid, the object of the invention being to so construct a package of calcium carbid as to effectually obviate all possibility of deterioration of the carbid during transit or While in storage and to exclude all moisture from the carbid and which can be deposited in a tightlysealed condition into an acetylene-gas generator, there to be automatically mutilated to liberate the carbid.

A further object is to provide means Whereby calcium carbid can be sealed, so as to be impervious to moisture from the time it leaves the manufacturer until the moment it is subjected to the action of water in an acetylenegas generator.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating my invention.

package thus constructed will be impervious to moisture and can therefore be shipped and stored without danger to property, which might occur were moisture or water permitted to reach the carbid.

Much objection has been urged against the storing of calcium carbid by insurance companies, railroads, and city governments on account of the great danger to which property might be subjected in case of fire, where the water employed to extinguish the fire would attack the carbid and generate gas, which would feed the flames. My improve; ment obviates these objections and renders the handling and storage of calcium carbid perfectly safe. Furthermore, the carbid can be subjected to an acetylene-gas generator in the original fire and water proof package, the fragile containerbeing broken by falling upon a breaker located Within the generator.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As a new article of manufacture, a package for use in making gas, consisting of a water and fire proof. hollow body of fragile material and gas-producing material sealed within said hollow body.

2. As a newarticle of manufacture, a package for use in the manufacture of acetylene gas consisting of a hollow body of fragile material and calcium carbid within said fragile body.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib ing witnesses.

THOMAS G. TURNER. W'itnesses:

R. S. FERGUSON, O. S. DRURY. 

